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The preservation of thickly detectable structure: a case study in gravity
Structural realists claim that structure is preserved across instances of radical theory change, and that this preservation provides an argument in...
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Are generics and negativity about social groups common on social media? A comparative analysis of Twitter (X) data
Many philosophers hold that generics (i.e., unquantified generalizations) are pervasive in communication and that when they are about social groups,...
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Once upon a time in superspace: the diegetic ideal for the interpretation of physical theories
This paper offers a novel argument for superspace substantivalism. Superspace is a modified spacetime represented formally through combining ordinary...
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Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenience
Mental causation is notoriously threatened by the causal exclusion argument. A prominent strategy to save mental causation from causal exclusion...
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A story of consistency: bridging the gap between Bentham and Rawls foundations
The axiomatic foundations of Bentham and Rawls solutions are discussed within the broader domain of cardinal preferences. It is unveiled that both...
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Don’t imagine junk! Positive conceivability and modal illusion in mereology
There is a widespread practice of using evidence obtained from conceiving/imagining for establishing possibility claims. As a case study. I offer a...
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Learning how to learn by self-tuning reinforcement
Humans and many animals are capable of learning and learning how to learn better. We are concerned here with one way that reinforcement learners...
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A logical challenge to correlationism: the Church–Fitch paradox in Husserl’s account of fulfilment, truth, and meaning
Husserl’s theory of fulfilment conceives of empty acts, such as symbolic thought, and fulfilling acts, such as sensory perceptions, in a strict...
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A logic of higher-order preferences
If an agent prefers one kind of agents to the other agents, then the agent has first-order preferences. If the agent prefers agents with one kind of...
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What’s so bad about fanaticism?
Fanaticism involves a robust and epistemically peculiar form of commitment: the fanatic is willing to sacrifice himself and others for the sake of...
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Linguistic politeness in social networks
From the viewpoint of information transaction models in linguistic pragmatics, expressions of linguistic politeness (LP) induce costs upon speakers....
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From Pixels to Principles: A Decade of Progress and Landscape in Trustworthy Computer Vision
The rapid development of computer vision technologies and applications has brought forth a range of social and ethical challenges. Due to the unique...
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Types of testimony and their reliability
It is a seemingly innocuous fact that people learn from the testimony of authorities. Children learn from parents, students learn from teachers, and...
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Knowing who occupies an office: purely contingent, necessary and impossible offices
This paper examines different kinds of definite descriptions denoting purely contingent, necessary or impossible objects. The discourse about...
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Loving Somebody: Accounting for Human-Animal Love
In the philosophy of love, the possibility of loving a non-human animal is rarely acknowledged and often explicitly denied. And yet, loving a...
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Two Ships of Theseus
Based on a large cross-cultural study, David Rose et al. (in: Lombrozo et al. (eds) Oxford studies in experimental philosophy, Vol. 3, Oxford...
